skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a little bit early to say it's a triumph. Isn't the end goal to have an actual museum of Tesla at that place ?
Annnnnnnnnnnd if I don't your using page flip, how am I supposed to figure out how to use this page, or know if there's even additional pages I should see?

Interesting concept, but the user experience is seriously lacking.
his formula is correct. you made a mistake in the order of operations.
Glad I kept "Web Developer" in my business card all these years. Payback time
Because "stereotype" != "analyze your traits and habits, and model your personality." That's called personality analysis and modelling.

Stereotypes involve using unrelated culturally-bound flags to pretend like you've done a personality analysis on someone. It's not stereotyping to notice someone doesn't wear a lot of makeup, and then declare that that person doesn't like to wear makeup, at least in the contexts that you've seen them in. It's stereotyping to notice someone doesn't wear makeup, then declare them a lesbian.
Well, you'd be giving an advantage to people who perform better than others when under stress. But then, that's not necessarily a bad thing is it?

As an aside, I've noticed that people respond to stress in extremely varying ways. I've seen smart and talented people completely fail at tests because they were stressed(even though I can personally attest to the fact that when not under stress they would've performed perfectly). I've also seen others who can be completely under-prepared for a test, not know how to answer half the questions they encounter and yet still not panic and somehow squeeze by and not fail(I know I've been in that position countless times because of my reluctance to study throughout school). I remember reading an article(though I can't find it now) a while back about how this was due to a fundamentally different internal attitude, one that refuses to rise up to challenges and simply declare themselves a failure and another that enjoys challenges and manages to rise up to meet them.
Tie innovation: the magneTIE
I'm incredibly curious about how the Twice investors feel about this allocation of capital.
Impressive Engineering + Art:  It's Raining, but you won't get wet
Facebook's Release Engineer
"Finally."
Anatomy of a Brokerage's IT meltdown
I had to omit proofs to complete in 15 min.

This will obviously not be a representative sample of working programmers (or even readers of this post). People who know they don't know are less likely to respond.
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This is a weird experiment to me because links (that's what 'which one do you click' means, right?) should be based on other factors besides their emphasis and weight, although ideally they're bolded simply to stand out from the rest of the copy. I'd knock the italics out of the running completely because of how sloppy they can render across operating systems, depending on the typeface and the user's ClearType settings.
It's been a while since I read it, but I think I would have preferred an abbreviated version to a video version.
Yes! More so if they have the data and the flight history to show that they can shut down malfunctioning engines before anything worse happens, which raises the survival probabilities of a manned capsule considerably.
Free fall Stanford classes
I resigned: first thoughts after 5 weeks. I should have done this years ago
Personal knowledge maps with PiggyDB
> full of teaching formulas and abstract concepts

uhm… I don't think you can have math without abstract concepts. Some counting on fingers yes, math—no.
And operating abstract concepts is hard. And there are no tricks, cheat-codes, *cademies to help with that.
That's why math is hard. That's why programming is hard too.
I use iCab Mobile and have filtered out Swipe using its ad blocker. It is really a scourge, IMO.
I'd also like to add: way too many people think they're good at UX. I know enough about it to know I'm mediocre at it.
It takes a tremendous amount of experience/skill to get a ux for something that has any amount of complexity to be easy to use.

Same problem with design/creative. Lots of people think they're good at it. Once you learn a little you'll find out that you don't know anything and you're pretty bad.
How so? YC plays in an industry (internet tech startups) that never cared much about education and credentialing to begin with.
Great point about the usability possibilities. There are probably tons of creative ways to use this effect since it's SVG based. I found myself assuming too that this would be used as presented (as a flipbook) so I think this experiment becomes even cooler once you get outside that frame of reference.
I think the design of the site and the product conflict. The design looks like you're selling the person, not their expertise, especially from the front page. I'm sure any of these people can do multiple things, but I don't care about that, if my goal is to set up shop in Asia, mention that. I am in no way able to know that just seeing Sophie Song's face on your front page.

Also, for sellers to solely use social media as a verification system just rubs me entirely the wrong way.

I really like the idea though, good luck!
I would clip it.
Work Backwards
So who's the product now?
Computers can do that repeatedly and reliably with even (hundreds of) thousands of discarded states. People reading code and trying to understand what's actually in play at line umptyfratz of function iGottaGetThisFixedNow(), not so much.

In the end, I'm not disagreeing with early exits per se, just that over time they can make it more difficult to understand function because assumptions about state have to adjust as a maintainer goes through the code. Those assumptions may have been crystal-clear to the writer originally but how many times is the original writer the only maintainer?
It's an interview with a Facebook software release engineer.
Deferred Revenue: A Look at The Subscription Model
The phrase "similar to you," is vague enough to possibly connote an actual scientific bases of measurement. Eg you could be measuring people according to their intelligence percentile as opposed to their racial group.

The term "stereotype" has a very specific meaning where people are compared archetypes of their racial, gendered, or social group, not something intrinsic to their personality or morality. Stereotypes can be very negative and so are viewed as generally unfair.
The goal of the campaign was to purchase the Wardenclyffe property and prevent its demolition. It's a fundamental step on the road of creating the museum.
your condescending tone aside, jQuery's API and vendor support is subject to change, especially in the coming months. last i heard, 50% usage also means 50% non-usage. you are also assuming that the target is a web browser, which is what jQuery is meant for. jQuery has no bearing on firefox extension programming, nodejs programming, or upcoming win8 RT and Firefox OS programming.
* quality: Matching the task with the right providers is crucial. At the moment we do a lot of manual vetting, making sure each task gets to the right people and everyone is happy. Over time we will collect more data to improve matching. Disputes are handled by ourselves right now and we want to have humans in charge for these things in the future.

* reputation: We also have a rating system in place which is used to give the provider feedback on their work and also helps us with matching future tasks. Buyer will get rated too. At work.io the buyers don't have to choose the provider but only defines what results they want to have delivered. There is the option to buy services directly by someone but these deals are normally done because of the reputation someone has outside of work.io
Fusion power could arrive sooner than expected
Thoughts on Paul Graham's "Growth"
Hamming makes clear his remarks are about how to do "significant things," and he is using science as a microcosm to describe what that is, only because it is the microcosm he is most familiar with. See here:

"Why shouldn't you do significant things in this one life, however you define significant? I'm not going to define it - you know what I mean. I will talk mainly about science because that is what I have studied. But so far as I know, and I've been told by others, much of what I say applies to many fields. Outstanding work is characterized very much the same way in most fields, but I will confine myself to science."
So it turns out that all the "UFO" sighting descriptions near Area 51 were pretty accurate after all.
I'd suggest that at the very least it creates extra pressure to perform and that pressure by itself can help to generate better results.
Though it's not yet published (and still under review), Wicherts and de Haan have a paper titled "A meta-analysis of the effects of stereotype threat on the cognitive test performance of African Americans"[1] which compares all published and unpublished studies on the stereotype threat. After examining the studies' methodologies, sample sizes, and other quality indicators, they found that the only variable correlated with publication is whether the study supported the existence of a significant stereotype threat.

In other words, the studies are suffering from massive publication bias, which is leading some researchers to question the very existence of the stereotype threat.

[1] The paper is referenced on Wicherts' CV: http://wicherts.socsci.uva.nl/CVJMW.pdf
People still dial and remember numbers?
With the editor you define how the results should look like. The providers will input the results there.
Desperate times call for desperate measures...

...is the Valley still a good place to launch given the enormous expense of talent there these days? Raise money there but hire remotely now seems like a better formula.
Thought I'd give this a try to see how it worked. Upon registering and agreeing to the Terms, I received an error page with instructions to call customer service. When I called, the rep had no idea what I was talking about. "Star what?" she said.

After I was transferred to a rep who knew what it was, he said I needed to download the iPhone app for it to work. However, it states throughout the FAQs[1] that the iPhone app isn't yet available. This was further confirmed at the StarStar website[2]. His response: "That's wrong. It's definitely available. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"

I'll be opting out and getting a refund today.

[1] https://sprint.starstar.me/faq

[2] http://www.starstar.me/iphone-app
Just two weeks ago while fishing with friends we were wondering why all the brand name sunglasses had become so expensive and now I know why. I break so many I just buy the cheap Chinese knock offs now.
The $.50 is $.50 regardless of what the voucher is for. It provides exactly $.50 no matter what. Sure, maybe someone with $700 at the ready for a laptop won't be the kind to be clipping $.50 coupons for anything but the same tendency to consider percentages rather than absolute values remains regardless of actual numbers. People will pat themselves on the back for saving $10 on a $50 garment but won't bother going out of their way to save $100 on a $20000 car.
Well, that was the case until the past few weeks.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/are-exact-match-domains-in-declin...

http://searchengineland.com/low-quality-exact-match-domains-...
5 Must Watch Movies For Entrepreneurs. Plz add to list.
https://wrapbootstrap.com/

http://bootswatch.com/
> So, I personally don't think this is the w3schools killer we were waiting for. At least not yet.

Pretty much every HTML/CSS resource out there is a w3schools killer. w3schools sucks.
Agreed. HN loves to criticize Apple for forcing their UIs to mimic real-life (think Newsstand, leather stitching, etc), but still considers things like this desirable.

From a technical perspective, it's cool. Please don't use this on real sites!
Hey everyone, I'm the co-founder of Twice. Just wanted to add my 2 cents too.

- @jboggan, agreed. YC knows how to pick em.

- We're only planning on one acquisition for now.

- Yep, it's a mix of cash and equity -- we haven't quite finalized all the details -- and everything will vest (as is standard), but you'll at least be able to buy a car on day one.

- The equity is valued based on our Series A valuation, which, unfortunately, was substantially less than $100 trillion :-)

- It's definitely an expensive proposition for us, but awesome people make awesome companies, so we think it's worth it.

More at restartfund.com. Feel free to shoot me an email as well (noah@liketwice.com)
It would work better if it was something like...

Welcome to work|i|o the one stop shop for...blah.

Or some form of one line and clear explanation of what the site is/does.

You're trying to get across 3 things very quickly here:

1. What the site is for.
2. How does it work (how can I use it?)
3. Why should I use it (what's the benefit for me?)

If there are alternatives, why should I use you instead of the alternatives? (e.g. too expensive, too clumsy, too rancid or whatever).
Yes, and it is not science.

Strawman. Sorry. Your understanding of human behaviour is facile. The purpose of orthoganal explanation is to avoid this. There is not stronger form of argument, please don't pretend to lecture.

On the data, you're argument is from Ignorace. The author of that book is one of the most knowledgeable people on the planet on that subject. Like it or not, your opinion has not been substantiated by any form of counter argument.

I don't need "objective" argument when I have intersubjective authority. You're argument about "science" is laughable in its in-applicability and ultimate irrelevance.

Which is obvious as well from your trivial citation of correlation/causation.

You don't understand how to create an argument and verify it using empirical data. The practicum on this is evidenced by the techniques of Special Forces operatives and all kinds of actual professional killers. These people don't have the inclination, the incentive, or the bandwidth to develop techniques which are failures.

The fact that you think Academics hold a superior position to actual killers on the subject points to the double weakness in your argument: (1) Academics have no actual experience; and (2) academics have all kinds of conflicted incentives to lie, the least of which is there pre-held political beliefes and naive understanding of actual human nature.

Try again. Or actually, don't. Actually, just read that book. The link to this discussion was not the motivation or the functional purpose of that series of working papers. The latter just became obvious and self/evident later (much of the background material, for example pre-dates the mid-1980s).[1]

____________

[1] Edit: As an aside, where do you think Andres Breivek got his idea to prepare for the massacre on Utoya? You should do some research on that as well. Both before and after there is relavent data on the record about it. The data there are also in distinct contradiction to your "argument" here.
Much smoother without the shadow. I can't believe we're there already, the worlds famous page flipper without flash :)
We will definitely add more services in the future and you are right that these three were the easiest to start with and give ok results for many people.

You could still provide buyers with awesome cookie recipes!
The author is confused. If a legal action is moved from preliminary hearing to trial, by definition it's not frivolous. This doesn't mean it isn't really frivolous by some common-sense test, only that the sitting judge determined that the issue merited a court trial. On that basis it's not frivolous, and woe betide the person who suggests that the judge acted wrongly in his court.

Truly frivolous legal actions (on which everyone agrees) aren't tried, they're cast out in preliminary hearings.

> After a trial before a jury, we managed to prove that we didn’t infringe and that the asserted claims from the patent were invalid.

Invalidating a patent in court doesn't make the proceeding frivolous -- all the plaintiff needs to do is claim that he sincerely believed in the patent and in his claims. A frivolous proceeding is one in which a plaintiff knowingly and deliberately wastes the court's time with actions that have no substance.

Also, to base a judgment about frivolousness on the outcome of a trial is to suggest that all losing plaintiffs are acting frivolously on the basis of the outcome.

Don't get me wrong -- I think the present patent system stinks to high heaven. But trying to call some patent proceedings "frivolous" just won't work.

What needs to change is not how the law is enforced, but the law itself.
How the equinox causes broadcast TV outages
This confuses the act of shipping code frequently with what the code actually does. Both of those are important but don't really have any bearing on each other.

fwiw, I disagree strongly that moving fast and breaking things "might be the singularly most important software engineering mantra of our age." Frankly, this terrifies me. You already qualify it by carving out banks, space shuttles (and presumably medical devices, transportation, etc). I suspect we could discuss a list of things where it doesn't quite apply and in the end I would have to add "...for products that aren't critical to your users." to the end of your sentence.
Inflation doesn't inflate everything at the same rate. In 1970, the DJIA was $809. 10 years later, it was $824. Inflation was more than 1%.
This has already been changed to
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That depends 100% on your timeframe. Start investing in March '09 and your money would have doubled in less than three and a half years.
You see that there is a bit of your problem.

No-one really understands what 'streamline work processes' actually means.

Does that mean you can help me serve my Big Macs better in my day job?

Jargon kills (and I mean KILLS) marketing effectiveness.
This is not a workable solution because the problem is not based on what port SMTP is running on. Organizations and ISPs voluntarily subscribe to email blacklists because they are desperate for any help in reducing spam volumes. They would filter email coming from blacklisted IPs regardless of what port it came in on.

You're basically proposing a whitelist solution, which has many known problems: it does not scale well; it does not handle new or unexpected email partners; it relies on the simultaneous cooperation of all parties; etc. In this particular case it also relies on spammers remaining ignorant of the new port for SMTP--which seems unlikely.
I would like the source!
I doubt that. If a software startup designed and built a distributed system that would automatically detect and recover from hardware faults (see: every 'design for failure' post ever), would you say that the hardware faults were due to inexperience or incompetence? Building redundancy into the system was a conscious decision, and they weren't "lucky" to have flown through this anomaly.
Hey, thanks a ton for the detailed feedback!

1) Solvate and many others.

2) Went with the current one to see what appeals to people, but like mentioned the industry specific landing pages will be a lot like you suggest.

3) Sign-In is both Signup & Login, the redundant one is just as backup (just to explain the thoughts behind it).

4) Still fiddling with this, most sites like oDeks et al do it, but nt yet sure if it's more effective (considering that you only have to sign up in the very last moment, eg order a job or offer a service)

5) 2 of the people just had this ones in B&W, will switch once we have a broader pool.

6) Right, submit on \n is still no good practice.

7) Highlight whats happening on the platform, bit of a placeholder now, but think more lively statistics, stories, industries, rankings here in the future.

8) 15% cut, we take care of the whole payment, landing pages etc.

9) Right, not all callback messages there yet.

10) This only happen if you "made up your mind" eg clicked "order" on a product, but a nice generic tutorial video combined with 9 would be nice.

Thanks again for taking the time, all the feedback, and the chance to start thinking about it while typing this.
>The 555 itself is a very long way down the list of Things That Make Oscillators Drift.

Well, this is true, but the chip put constraints on the types of circuits you ended up with.

>Did you try polystyrene or polypropylene capacitors, or NPO ceramics?

Eh, I don't recall, as this was 25 years ago. Probably. We were making one or two of each product, so the cost of the parts was a rounding error compared to development and test.

>Sounds enlightened.

They had been burned a few times in a sort of public way. Yeah, it was overkill. On the other hand by that time you could already buy phase locked loops on a chip, so there wasn't really a reason to keep using the 555 as an oscillator unless you were making something that had to use really cheap parts.
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Coandă effect
There's an interesting question here, actually. Do people really have the right to screw themselves out of a fair trial? I guess so - if only because it would be very difficult to deprive people of this right. I would point out, however, that most constitutions I know of go to great lengths to try to deprive people of the right to screw themselves out of a fair trial. That's why people are given public defenders if they cannot afford a lawyer, for instance.

More to the point - this case isn't just about Samsung. Everybody is affected by the changing limitations and definitions involved in patent law. So while it's hard to say that Samsung doesn't have a right to screw up their own defense, it's also hard to say that justice isn't infringed when jury selection is botched here.

At the very least, if someone were a champion of Apple's cause here (and I am not saying I am one) then that person would justifiably be very upset to see that what could have been a clear and direct case setting precedent of the future can become a hazy decision which will be ardently appealed and at the very least questioned for years.
I think we need a new web acronym,

DWP - "Dripping With Sarcasm"
Agreed. You don't want to give up on Bootstrap because it's just so easy to use. My advice would be to spend the $20 or whatever it is on wrapbootstrap and get a decent theme that you can use for rapid prototyping without it looking like the stock Bootstrap theme.
iOS is a product FROM Apple. They have the right to do whatever they want with it - same for Amazon and the Kindle.

Microsoft didn't "have a monopoly on Internet Explorer" - they had (still have?) a monopoly on COMPUTER OSes, which they used to force-feed everyone with a BROWSER. It would be a monopoly if Apple's iOS ran in 90% of the phones in the world, but that's not the case today (nor in the foreseeable future)...
Noble Prize in Medicine to Briton, Japanese for Stem Cell Work
Since this is related I'd love to share a similar project I am working on: http://www.betterfrontend.com - think of it as curated best-practices for Front-End Development.
In addition to what luca said: We take a lot of pressure out of the marketplace by not having a biding mechanism in the first place, so better matches in terms of budget / skills etc are likely (happy to go into more depth on this) and we also collect tons of implicit data, so once we should get some traction, it should be easier to model the current manual work we do behind the scenes into corresponding algorithms (also happy to expand on this).
I hadn't heard of magnetized liner inertial fusion before. Is it really as promising as the article makes it seem?

What happens if they get just a little above break even?